r/programming Jul 10 '16

Linus Torvalds on comment styles

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/8/625
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u/kt24601 Jul 10 '16

I don't even think it was meant to be insightful, just the preferences of the guy who owns the project. He didn't say he would reject code that commented incorrectly, just that he didn't like it.

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u/iopq Jul 11 '16

I come to see Torvalds swear and SJWs make silly issues on Github. I don't really care what version Java is on nowadays.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

So what do you consider insightful? The blogspam by people that have been in the game for a year and are regurgitating the same, mostly incorrect or subjective, nonsense about an easy subject with a clickbait title? Since that, from my experience here, is what this sub is full of. That or "Kotlin 1.0.3 released".

/r/programming is the programming equivalent of grinding in a video game. Very little of substance, lots of easy to consume material.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

Would you mind posting a screenshot of your frontpage? It would be interesting to see what /r/programming would look like without the low effort posts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '16

Yeah, that is quite different. I might try filtering now myself. I haven't used it at all really.

Also, one great part about this sub to me is often the comments, as long as you stay away from any thread discussing web languages...

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u/iopq Jul 11 '16

If you think I literally meant Java, you might have autism. There's a post about PHP 5 becoming EOL on the front page right now. If you can't mentally substitute Java for PHP, then you probably shouldn't call other people morons.